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Software RSS FeedsMicrosoft claims Xbox 360 sold 8 million worldwide - Once again just before CES week, Microsoft is claiming victory in the game console race, at least against rival Sony PlayStation 3. And once again, veteran analyst Sharon Fisher pores over the numbers....Feed Source: www.betanews.com Lenovo intros multimedia PCs for gaming, dual-screen laptop - With the exception of the high-end, business-oriented ThinkPad W700ds, all of Lenovo's product rollouts at this week's CES 2009 will be aimed at consumers, company officials told BetaNews.... New HP Pavilion notebooks go for style, go with AMD - UPDATED HP has had a reputation for delivering sturdy, competent, but unexciting hardware without a lot of pizzazz in the marketing department. As folks used to say, if HP was selling sushi, they'd market it as "cold, dead fish."... Jobs-less Macworld offers up 17-inch MacBook Pro, variable iTunes prices - UPDATED Expectations were moderated after the king of the keynotes stepped aside for what he admitted yesterday to be health problems. But at a quieter, gentler Macworld, the crowd did get something to take home.... Samsung goes solidly green - At this week's Storage Visions 2009 Conference on Tuesday, Samsung announced that it's preparing to ship a 100 GB solid-state drive with fresh green credentials.... HP sets fire to Voodoo DNA with sleeker Firebird desktop - UPDATED If the venerable desktop PC platform has any real "homebase" of customers left, it's in the enthusiast market where "cool" refers more to looks and performance rather than, say, CPU temperature.... Disgruntled IT guy fells blogging site - It's better than having some jerk walk back in with a gun, but it's sure not good: The journalspace.com blog site has shut down after a "disgruntled" former IT employee used his own data-backup choice to obliterate its entire data store.... January phish buffet: Now with IRS - As regular as tax season itself, phishers pretending to offer information on an IRS "stimulus payment" are targeting thrifty (or is that greedy?) taxpayers.... Samsung announces HDTVs with Yahoo Widgets - The broadband-connected television market will be in full bloom at CES 2009, with Samsung announcing that its newest lineup of HDTVs will sport "Internet@TV", a Yahoo-powered widget interface.... RIAA: MediaSentry relationship had already ended - In the second "deflation" of a Wall Street Journal story in as many months, an RIAA spokesperson confirmed to BetaNews this morning that the termination of its use of the MediaSentry service had already happened.... Netflix and Amazon On Demand come to even more - Amazon today announced that owners of the formerly Netflix-exclusive Roku set-top box will be able to access Amazon Video On Demand, and LG announced it's building Netflix instant streaming directly into some of its upcoming HDTVs.... Apple's FileMaker launches revamped Mac and Windows database - At Macworld today, Apple's FileMaker, Inc. subsidiary will launch a major overhaul of its flagship database for Mac and Windows desktops and servers, a product used by 70 of the world's Fortune 100 corporations.... So it was a health problem after all, admits Steve Jobs - Addressing the recent announcement that he will not deliver the Macworld keynote this year, Apple CEO Steve Jobs released a statement this morning about his mysterious health condition.... Twitter twormented by phishers - UPDATED A phisher or phishers operating over the holiday weekend deluged Twitter users with direct messages designed to steal sign-in information. A second, unrelated compromised dozens of high-profile accounts and spewed rude fake messages.... CES Countdown #4: Who's securing the CE device's end user? - Computer security fuels many excellent conferences. CES is not typically one of them, but the current state of the economy is compelling conference goers to refocus on their core priorities and security is one of them.... Copyright © 2009, OkieWebs. All Rights Reserved. |